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Jim Bouton is a former Major League Baseball player and the author of the controversial baseball book *Ball Four*, which was a combination diary of his 1969 season and memoir of his years with the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, and Houston Astros. The book described a side of baseball that was previously unseen.

Jason W. Stevens is Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University.

Tawia Ansah is a visiting professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law from the New England School of Law, where he has been since 2002. Prior to that he was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse University College of Law. Also, he was a legal consultant with JPMorgan Chase; a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada. His international legal experience includes service with the Council of Europe (Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina), the United Nations Human Rights Field Operation (Kigali, Rwanda), and the United Nations Centre for Human Rights (Geneva).

Thomas Kline is a partner with Andrew Kurth, LLP. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution involving the following areas: general commercial matters, bankruptcy, intellectual property, insurance, energy, environmental issues and administrative law cases, with a specialization in art and cultural property litigation and advice. Tom most recently served as the Managing Partner of Andrews Kurth's Washington, DC office and on the firm's Policy Committee.

Lynn H. Nicholas was educated in the United States, England, and Spain, received her B.A. from Oxford University and, upon her return to the U.S., worked for several years in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. While living in Belgium in the early 1980’s, she initiated what would become 10 years of research for her first highly acclaimed book. *The Rape of Europa* was a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was elected to the Légion d’Honneur by the government of France, and in 2005 released her second book, *Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web*. Ms. Nicholas and her husband live in Washington, D.C.

James Ogoola became Principal Judge of the Ugandan Judiciary in 1998. He is also Justice of Appeal for the East African Court of Justice 2009 to 2016 and Lord Justice, COMESA Court of Justice from 1999 to 2013. Justice Ogoola has been Senior Legal Counsel to the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and Paris, France from 1974 to 1998. In addition, he has been Chairman of the Transitional Justice Working Group in Uganda, since 2008. Justice Ogoola was an Associate Professor of International Finance Law at American University School of Law from 1980 to 1982 and Principal Legislative Draftsman for the Uganda government from 1969 to 1974. His other positions include: Chairman of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Mismanagement of HIV/AIDS Funds in Uganda in 2005 and Chairman of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Failed Banks in Uganda in 2000. Justice Ogoola has translated the Bible into his mother tongue, Lusamia. The translation was launched in July 2008. He also published an anthology of poetry, “Songs of Paradise,” in July 2009. Justice Ogoola received his LLB with Honors from the University of Dares Salaam, Tanzania in 1969. He obtained his LLM from Columbia University in New York in 1974.

Robert Petit was called to the Bar in 1988 and started his legal career as a Crown Prosecutor in Montreal for eight years eventually focusing on organised criminality and complex cases. From 1996 to 1999, he embarked on an international career starting as a Legal Officer in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Subsequently between 1999 and 2004, he was a Legal Advisor for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, a Prosecutor for the Serious Crimes Unit of the United Nations Missions of Support to East Timor, and a Senior Trial Attorney with the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In 2006, he was named by the United Nations as International Co Prosecutor of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia a position he held until September 2009 when he returned to Canada and his current position as Counsel with the War Crimes Section of Canada’s Federal Department of Justice.

David M. Crane was appointed a professor of practice at Syracuse University College of Law in 2006 after having been a distinguished visiting professor for a year. He was the founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2002-05), appointed by the Secretary General of the U.N., Kofi Annan. With the rank of Undersecretary General, Prof. Crane’s mandate was to prosecute those who bear the greatest responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international human rights committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone during the 1990’s. Among those he indicted was the President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, the first sitting African head of state to be held accountable. Prof. Crane was the first American since Justice Robert Jackson and Telford Taylor at Nuremberg, in 1945, to be Chief Prosecutor of an international war crimes tribunal. Appointed to the U.S. Senior Executive Service in 1997, Prof. Crane has held numerous key positions, including Senior Inspector General, Department of Defense; Assistant General Counsel of the Defense, Intelligence Agency; and Waldemar A. Solf Professor of International Law at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School. Prof. Crane teaches international criminal law, international law, international humanitarian law, and national security law. He is on the faculty of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, a joint venture with the Maxwell School of Public Citizenship at Syracuse University. Prof. Crane is on the leadership council of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section and is Chairman of its Blue Ribbon Panel on the International Criminal Court’s 2010 Review Session. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Association. In 2006-07, he founded *Impunity Watch* (www.impunitywatch.net) a law review and public service blog.

Prior to joining the London School of Economics, Jens Meierhenrich taught at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including *The Rationality of Genocide, The Structure of Genocide*, and *The Culture of Genocide* (all forthcoming from Princeton University Press) as well as *Genocide: A Very Short Introduction and Genocide: A Reader* (both forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He just completed his book *Lawfare* (under review) and also recently authored *The Legacies of Law* (Cambridge University Press), which won the American Political Science Association’s 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the “best book published in the United States during the previous year in politics, government, or international affairs.” A Rhodes Scholar, he recently served in Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and previously worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

David Scheffer teaches International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, and Corporate Human Rights Responsibility. He supervises the International Externship Program and in 2007-08, received the Dean’s Teaching Award. Prof. Scheffer was previously the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation in U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court. During his ambassadorship, he negotiated and coordinated U.S. support for the establishment and operation of international and hybrid criminal tribunals and U.S. responses to atrocities. During the first term of the Clinton Administration, he was senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Representative to the U.N., Dr. Madeleine Albright. Prof. Scheffer recently held visiting professorships at Georgetown and George Washington University. Earlier he taught at Duke and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He has published extensively on international legal and political issues and appears regularly in the national and international media. Member of the New York and DC Bars, the American Society of International Law (formerly serving on the Executive Council), and the Council on Foreign Relations, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Law Students Association (2004-08). He earned his AB from Harvard University, his BA (Honour School of Jurisprudence), Oxford University and LLM, Georgetown University. Prof. Scheffer has been a Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace; Senior Vice President, U.N. Association of the U.S.A.; Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Senior Consultant, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives; International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; and Associate, Coudert Brothers.

David Applegate is the senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards at the USGS. In that capacity, he leads the Earthquake Hazards, Global Seismographic Network, and Geomagnetism Programs and coordinates geologic hazards activities across the USGS. He also chairs the National Science and Technology Council's interagency Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction. Applegate is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Utah's Department of Geology and Geophysics. Prior to joining USGS in 2004, he spent eight years at the American Geological Institute (AGI) as director of government affairs and, for the last four years there, as the editor of Geotimes, AGI's newsmagazine of the earth sciences. Before coming to AGI, Applegate served with the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources as the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Science Fellow and as a professional staff member for the minority. Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Applegate holds a B.S. in geology from Yale University and a Ph.D., also in geology, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Frank William Abagnale Jr. is an American security consultant best known for his history as a former confidence trickster, cheque forger, skilled impostor, and escape artist. He became notorious in the 1960s for successfully passing $2.5 million worth of meticulously forged checks across 26 countries over the course of five years, beginning when he was 16-years-old. In the process, he claimed to have assumed no fewer than eight separate identities, successfully impersonating an airline pilot, a doctor, a Bureau of Prisons agent and a lawyer. He escaped from police custody twice (once from a taxiing airliner and once from a US federal penitentiary), all before he was 21-years-old. Abagnale's life story provided the inspiration for the feature film Catch Me If You Can. He is currently a consultant and lecturer at the academy and field offices for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He also runs Abagnale & Associates, a financial fraud consultancy company.